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The awakening of normies is humanity's last hope.
"If there is hope, it lies in the proles." -Winston, 1984.
Rowling Derangement Syndrome - "TERF/Woke Author Bad!!1"
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"If there is hope, it lies in the proles." -Winston, 1984.
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Pretty much. The majority of the populace 10 years ago assumed that transgender was just some new sexual identity because it was dropped amongst the LGBTQ+.
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I'm sure that will come as quite a shock to Rick Riordin, who thought that he was their right-on answer to J.K. Rowling.
Guess they're not making any more of those Percy Jackson Disney+ shows, then...
I was thinking about this the other day, and how, whenever there's a big fad that's popular with children, clueless adults in marketing inevitably try to capture some of that fandom by throwing out something similar to what the kids already like, but also different enough to be legally distinct.
And it literally never works, because I think, on some level, it's obvious what they're trying to do, even to children. Children want The Big Thing that all their friends on the playground are talking about, they don't want the thing that's somewhat similar.
Biker Mice From Mars would not exist without Ninja Turtles.
Big Bad Beetleborgs would not exist without Power Rangers.
Digimon would not exist without Pokemon.
Percy Jackson would not exist without Harry Potter.
Equestria Girls would not exist without Monster High.
Lego Worlds would not exist without Minecraft.
I'm sure there are other examples, but I can't think of any offhand. But, suffice to say, pop culture is strewn with these franchises that only exist as a futile attempt to poach something else's audience. These things may have varying levels of success, you may even think of them fondly or nostalgically, but ultimately and undeniably they remain forever in the shadow of the thing that they were shamelessly attempting to imitate.
The ironic thing is that when The Next Big Thing arrives, it's usually something completely dissimilar to the existing Big Thing, and something that you couldn't have predicted, rendering, I presume, the entire endeavour expensive and pointless.
I think all it does is saturate the market with The Big Thing plus loads of similar-but-different properties trying to copy The Big Thing, thus devaluing the concept over all because consumers get sick of it.
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I miss Lego Universe. We never got any kind of ending to that story.
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Was that the thing with the little Lego playsets that connected to the video game?
That was, in itself, an attempt by Lego to poach Skylanders' audience?
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Oh no that was Lego Dimensions, though the concept is kind of similar. In that game you had a bunch of figures and vehicles from various Lego and non-lego IPs that you could slot in skylander style. From what I heard the game itself was just okay, the appeal was all the IPs that never appeared in Lego before like Back to the Future or Doctor Who.
Lego Universe was a MMORPG that launched back in 2010 that only lasted 2 years before being shut down due to costs. You could travel around to various Lego-theme specific worlds. I thought it was the coolest shit back in the day.
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They weren't greedy enough to survive, sadly. It had to shut down after only 2 years because like 90% of their players just played on F2P accounts and never spent a dime, because they were... y'know 10 years old.Oh, so it was Lego's attempt at being the next World of Warcraft!
It was too kid-focused and open to actually pay for itself, and for a Lego product that's just kinda sad.
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Ah yes, nothing says deeply innate identity like turning supposedly inviolable pronouns into a shallow insult. They always tell on themselves with this sort of thing.
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"A penname is basically the same as being a tranny, BOOO JOANNEANUEL ROWLINGSTEIN BOOOOOO"
I mean if you want to say a fake, made-up identity that only exists to deceive people is akin to being a troon then be my guest, jennd3875.
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to be fair to Digimon, it came out near simultaneously with Pokemon in Japan and is functionally a unique bit similar concept, and almost certainly would still exist in Japan without Pokemon- as far as Digimon in America and the restcof the world, it likely wouldn't have spread very far or sustained itself as well without Pokemon pushing localizers to translate the anime and games, but it's not a wholesale knockoff of a popular concept the way everything else you listed is
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I am remembering the multiple Smurfs and Scooby Doo clones of my childhood. Including Jabberjaw which instead of a Great Dane starred a shark that was also a rock drummer.
Every now and then I check that this really existed and I didn't hallucinate it.
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Divergent wouldn't exist without the Hunger Games for the teenage dystopia set.
Hilarious that Disney has apparently thrown their Percy Jackson adaptation under the bus.
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Let's not pretend that Harry Potter isn't a knockoff.
Rowling didn't even invent the boy with glasses and magical powers who has a pet owl character - Neil Gaimann did that with Timothy Hunter in the Books of Magic DC comics. And neither did she invent magical schools (the Worst Witch, Wizards Hall, Earthsea, Unseen University...). Hell, the name Harry Potter apeared in a Monty Python sketch long before the HP books were written.
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Timothy Hunter is an ordinary English school boy who is destined to become the greatest magician in all of history. He learns magic through the mystical Books of Magic. Magic: At the current time Tim has a fairly limited grasp on magic, even if he is supposed to become the greatest magician of...
Without these works Harry Potter wouldn't exist.
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Visit London, try to book a time slot to visit the Harry Potter studio tour and see exactly how much the proles care about funding the troon genocide. You need to book it months in advance.
Incidentally, it’s a great day out even if you’ve never seen all the movies and are being dragged along in your capacity as weary uncle who is an easy mark in gift shops.
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Let's not pretend that Harry Potter isn't a knockoff.
Rowling didn't even invent the boy with glasses and magical powers who has a pet owl character - Neil Gaimann did that with Timothy Hunter in the Books of Magic DC comics. And neither did she invent magical schools (the Worst Witch, Wizards Hall, Earthsea, Unseen University...). Hell, the name Harry Potter apeared in a Monty Python sketch long before the HP books were written.
Timothy Hunter
Timothy Hunter (Prime Earth)
Timothy Hunter is an ordinary English school boy who is destined to become the greatest magician in all of history. He learns magic through the mystical Books of Magic. Magic: At the current time Tim has a fairly limited grasp on magic, even if he is supposed to become the greatest magician of...dc.fandom.com
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Without these works Harry Potter wouldn't exist.
The literal only other human being on planet Earth that I have ever heard talk about this is Comics Drake, and he only talked about it because he has a tranny brother and wanted to stick it to J.K. Rowling and claim that she stole the idea of Harry Potter.
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Am I insane or has this thread moved boards at least three times since September?
On topic, I was just looking for some ideas on what to do with books too old and foxed to donate, and instead of a page on "DIY Crafts with Old Books" I get this retardation:
On topic, I was just looking for some ideas on what to do with books too old and foxed to donate, and instead of a page on "DIY Crafts with Old Books" I get this retardation:
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When I was a kid, I made up a story that was basically identical to Ready Player One years before that book came out and published it on a website for young authors, so basically what I'm saying is Ernest Cline ripped off my story and owes me money.
/sneed, obviously, but I shouldn't have to explain why this is a dumb point to make.
Every story on the face of the planet has superficial similarities to another work that came before it. What defines a ripoff is that it's deliberately crafted to cash in on the popularity of a far more successful and established media franchise. It's not a wildly successful series that happens to share certain plot or character elements with another relatively obscure series, which the author may not have even known about. Especially when those elements are as basic as "virtual reality video game," "magical boarding school," or "boy wizard with glasses."
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My mum really liked HP so occasionally I would read the books she had. She bought the books in Chinese too and I used that at some point to learn the language. I might even be able to find those books somewhere in my parents' basement. Maybe I should try and find them.
Literally the ONLY reason I started following HP again in adulthood was because of troons. When JKR was going on about refugees, I just assumed she's being the typical leftist and ignored it all. Most successful authors are somewhat left leaning. If it weren't troons, I wouldn't be so autistic with so many of their Lego sets and giving them away as gifts to friends and relatives. To think about it, troons likely took ten grands or more from me to fund this franchise. I don't regret a thing. It's called voting with your wallet.
Normies don't give a flying shit about the fake genocide of attention seeking cross-dressing male rapists. A lot of popular sets are sold out the moment they got released. Trannies can cry and seethe and moan, it won't change a thing.
If you can only buy one set or only want to tolerate so much autism, I recommend the owl. Set 76391. It looks really good too and comes with protego against troons. The set isn't that expensive either, $250 without a discount. Wait for 20-30% off promotions and stack the discount with discounted gift cards if you're one of those types of people.
Literally the ONLY reason I started following HP again in adulthood was because of troons. When JKR was going on about refugees, I just assumed she's being the typical leftist and ignored it all. Most successful authors are somewhat left leaning. If it weren't troons, I wouldn't be so autistic with so many of their Lego sets and giving them away as gifts to friends and relatives. To think about it, troons likely took ten grands or more from me to fund this franchise. I don't regret a thing. It's called voting with your wallet.
Normies don't give a flying shit about the fake genocide of attention seeking cross-dressing male rapists. A lot of popular sets are sold out the moment they got released. Trannies can cry and seethe and moan, it won't change a thing.
If you can only buy one set or only want to tolerate so much autism, I recommend the owl. Set 76391. It looks really good too and comes with protego against troons. The set isn't that expensive either, $250 without a discount. Wait for 20-30% off promotions and stack the discount with discounted gift cards if you're one of those types of people.